You asked for an update of 2009-R-0217, which reported the top 25 employers of people who receive, or whose kids receive, HUSKY A (Medicaid) benefits.

Table 1 lists the top 25 individual employers whose employees' children, and in some case the employees, were receiving HUSKY A as of May 24, 2011. It also compares the total enrollments with those reported in February 2005 and 2009. (DSS reports that local boards of education, the self-employed, housekeepers, and day laborers, in the aggregate, have total enrollments that would fall in the Top 25. For purposes of this report, we look only at individual employers.)

The number of child recipients may be overstated as some may be counted twice. That is because a child conceivably could be living in a two-parent household in which one caretaker is receiving HUSKY A and the other is not.

Table 1: Adults and Children Covered by HUSKY A and Top 25 Individual Employers as of May 24, 2011

[1] The income limit for adult caretaker relatives in the HUSKY A program increased from 150% to 185% of the federal poverty level in 2007.

[2] In 2005, OLR did not have exact child recipient numbers. It used a multiplier of 1.37 children per adult to arrive at an approximate number of child enrollees. The multiplier was based on the average size of a HUSKY A “assistance unit” or family receiving HUSKY A coverage in February 2005.

[3] Shop Rite took over several Shaws supermarkets in 2010. Shaws was in the Top 25 in 2005 and 2009. In 2005, it had 754 employees and their children enrolled in HUSKY A.